Fun - Is The Fun Need Fundamentally Broken?
After watching many let's plays where the player basically runs his Sims to their breaking points I have come to the realization that fun is kind of a broken need. Many activities don't produce any fu...
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"CaprianaB;c-17429627" wrote:
I've found that playing video games on the computer boosts my sims' fun meter up the quickest.
This is exactly why I think it's broken though.
It's absolutely true that the computer makes it go up very fast. As does the TV. Now what about my artist sim? She has the loves art trait and doesn't get fun while she paints? My athletic sim goes to a soccer game and comes out with his fun meter tanked? He loves sports but didn't have fun at the sporting event? Wait what? They've missed some things in the programming here that they really need to go back and have another look at.
The problem is that items don't have fun attached to them that should have. Reading a book will increase it barely. Same with a bookworm. A bookworm sim should have it increase at the same rate as another sim would have at a video game at the computer. Why is my artistic sim not getting fun from painting? It should relieve tension, I mean, that's why I paint... There's times when I try to get a sim to do something and they won't do it because they're "tense" yet it's an item that could raise their fun IF they had their fun high enough in the first place. That's broken to me. Let them do that action to get out of the tense and raise the fun.
Sure I could have them use the computer to play a video game first, but I shouldn't have to have a computer in every house because it's the only thing "fun" to do. I don't want that for all my sims and off the grid is especially hard to play because the game seems to only find electronics fun.
